Columbus Square Cinemas

3100 Macon Road,
Columbus, GA 31906

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rivest266
rivest266 on August 25, 2022 at 10:51 am

Closed August 5th, 2005.

TheaterLover800
TheaterLover800 on December 6, 2019 at 9:51 pm

I remember seeing Billy Jack up at the theater when I had visited my grandparents when it was a single auditorium.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 4, 2018 at 8:43 pm

This opened on July 10th, 1975 as a twin. 4 screens on December 22nd, 1978 and 8 on July 23rd, 1982. Closed 2005. Grand opening ads in the photo section.

Matt Ceccato
Matt Ceccato on March 17, 2018 at 5:42 am

I have added two more photos of the theater courtesy the Facebook group “You Grew Up in Columbus, GA.” Just a couple of shots of the front, but they are now there.

Adam
Adam on May 27, 2017 at 8:16 am

Anybody got anymore pics of this theater could you post please. Can’t find any more pics.

Adamthemoviefan
Adamthemoviefan on July 31, 2014 at 12:34 pm

So many good memories I miss this theatre

Adam
Adam on December 31, 2013 at 12:59 pm

Columbus square 8 good memories saw leatherface Texas chainsaw massacre 3 and all the nightmare on elm streets there

Adam
Adam on November 7, 2013 at 12:15 pm

I remember watching most of the Friday the 13th movies here all the good movies played there

Matt Ceccato
Matt Ceccato on December 21, 2012 at 12:17 pm

I have more information about this theater.

It initially opened on July 10, 1975 (which, incidentally, was my father’s 30th birthday) as the Columbus Square Twin, replacing the Beverly Theater at Columbus Square Mall. Sometime around 1978 or 1979, two additional screens were added. From the aerial picture, the new auditoriums were the ones that had vertical A/C units (I think) on the top.

In the summer of 1982, four more screens were added. I remember seeing “Annie” in auditorium #8 (the auditorium featured upper right based on the picture). Most of the big films that played at a Martin/Carmike played here until 1988, when the Carmike Cinema 7 was opened. The theater further declined in 1993 when a new theater at Peachtree Mall was built.

Eventually, the theater was closed in 2003, and demolished soon thereafter.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on April 7, 2012 at 10:10 am

Wow, Someone beat ATl.We had the First 4 plex in Georgia. Augusta with Masters 4,ATlanta must have been slow during these days.

JBrantley
JBrantley on April 7, 2012 at 7:00 am

It was I think earlier than the time mentioned above. I was in Columbus for a funeral and saw the theater bragging it was the first 8-screen complex in Georgia. This was I believe the late 1970s. At that time there were no 8-screen cinemas in Atlanta. They came in the 1980s